HomeExternal Resources
This section presents a list of external internet resources that are focussed on web accessibility issues.
Anti-Discrimination
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html
The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) is authorised to issue guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination. This authority is provided under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.
This URL presents advisory notes from HREOC to assist people and organisations involved in developing or modifying web pages, by making clearer what the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act are in this area, and how compliance with them can be achieved.
They present information on areas of equal access and the web, advice on access, and what limits there are on obligations to comply with access requirements.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. This is a reference document for accessibility principles and design ideas.
Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html
This checklist provides a list of all checkpoints for Web content developers from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/ organized by concept.
HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-WCAG10-HTML-TECHS-20001106/
This document describes techniques for authoring accessible HTML content. They are not intended to be guarantees of conformance nor are they the only way to produce conforming content. This document contains a number of examples that illustrate accessible solutions in CSS as well as presenting deprecated examples that illustrate what content developers should not do.
Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/
These guidelines explain how to implement the checkpoints defined in the Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html. This document discusses each checkpoint in more detail and provides examples using HTML, CSS, SMIL, and MathML. It also includes techniques for document validation and testing, and an index of HTML elements and attributes along with which techniques use them.
W3C HTML 4.01 Specification www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). In addition to the text, multimedia, and hyperlink features of the previous versions of HTML (HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0), HTML 4 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, stylesheets, better printing facilities, and documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification (May 1998) www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/
CSS2 builds on CSS1 and, with very few exceptions, all valid CSS1 style sheets are valid CSS2 style sheets. CSS2 supports media-specific style sheets so that authors may tailor the presentation of their documents to visual browsers, aural devices, printers, braille devices, handheld devices, etc. This specification also supports content positioning, downloadable fonts, table layout, features for internationalization, automatic counters and numbering, and some properties related to user interface.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (CSS1) (Dec 1996, Revised Jan 1999) www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111
This document specifies level 1 of the Cascading Style Sheet mechanism (CSS1). CSS1 is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style (e.g. fonts, colours and spacing) to HTML documents. The CSS1 language is human readable and writable, and expresses style in common desktop publishing terminology.
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Basic Guidelines www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
This document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices.
Metadata
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://www.dublincore.org/
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.
Linked from this URL is a document is an up-to-date, authoritative specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Included are the fifteen terms of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.
Australian Government Locator Service www.naa.gov.au/records-management/create-capture-describe/describe/agls/index.aspx
The AGLS Metadata Standard www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/AGLS-Element.aspx is a set of 19 descriptive elements that government departments and agencies can use to improve the visibility and accessibility of their web services. It has been mandated for use by Australian Government agencies www.agimo.gov.au/archive/publications_noie/2002/11/bsbg.html/.
A downloadable manual sets out Australian Government requirements for the implementation of the AGLS Metadata Element Set www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/AGLS-manual.aspx and provides practical advice and direction for staff responsible for coordinating agency policy and practice on web-based information and services.